On September 16, 1922, two bodies are found in a New Jersey park, a man and a woman. They’ve both been shot and the woman has nearly been decapitated In a sleepy community like this such a crime would naturally cause a commotion, but when it turns out that the deceased are a local minister and a woman who is very much not his wife, the fervor goes into overdrive. The case, known as the Hall-Mills murders, inflamed a media war between New York’s three […]
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Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder that Hooked American on True Crime by Joe Pompeo
